Re: [HACKERS] Final call for platform testing

[Tom Lane]

Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not sure how to test the "implicit time zone" feature of "TIME WITH TIME
> ZONE" without risking the same kinds of trouble. Maybe the test should
> be recast to using only comparisons with other date/time types which
> have been shown to behave themselves across time zone boundaries. But
> I'm not sure that this would continue to really test the feature.

I suspect we have no choice but to eliminate this particular test from
the regression suite.  A test that fails for a few days around DST
boundaries is one thing, but a test that fails for six months out of the
year is another.

BTW, the reason HPUX was failing to fail is that its mktime() is picky
about tm_year; we were forgetting to subtract off 1900 in that
particular code path.  Fixed.  Now I get a failure like everyone else ;-)

                        regards, tom lane

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